Effective: March 30, 1999 Latest Legislation: House Bill 402 – 122nd General Assembly As used in all sections of the Revised Code relating to nuisances: (A) “Place” includes any building, erection, or place or any separate part or portion thereof or the ground itself; (B) “Person” includes any individual, corporation, association, partnership, trustee, lessee, agent, […]
Effective: January 1, 1999 Latest Legislation: House Bill 2 – 122nd General Assembly (A) Any person, who uses, occupies, establishes, or conducts a nuisance, or aids or abets in the use, occupancy, establishment, or conduct of a nuisance; the owner, agent, or lessee of an interest in any such nuisance; any person who is employed […]
Effective: September 20, 1999 Latest Legislation: House Bill 187 – 123rd General Assembly Whenever a nuisance exists, the attorney general; the village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation in which the nuisance exists; the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the nuisance exists; the law […]
Effective: June 1, 1992 Latest Legislation: House Bill 343 – 119th General Assembly (A) The civil action provided for in section 3767.03 of the Revised Code shall be commenced in the court of common pleas of the county in which the nuisance is located. At the commencement of the action, a complaint alleging the facts […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly (A) The civil action provided for in section 3767.03 of the Revised Code shall be set down for trial at the earliest possible time and shall have precedence over all other cases except those involving crimes, election contests, or injunctions regardless of […]
Effective: June 1, 1992 Latest Legislation: House Bill 343 – 119th General Assembly (A) If the existence of a nuisance is admitted or established in the civil action provided for in section 3767.03 of the Revised Code or in a criminal action, an order of abatement shall be included in the judgment entry under division […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly In case of the violation of any injunction or closing order, granted under sections 3767.01 to 3767.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or of a restraining order or the commission of any contempt of court in proceedings under such sections, the court […]
Effective: January 1, 1974 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 109th General Assembly Whenever a permanent injunction issues against any person for maintaining a nuisance, there shall be imposed upon said nuisance and against the person maintaining the same a tax of three hundred dollars. Such tax may not be imposed upon the personal property […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a nuisance is found to exist in any proceeding under sections 3767.01 to 3767.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and the owner or agent of such place whereon the same has been found to exist was not a party to such […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement, under a lawful title, uses such place for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, such use makes void the lease or other title under which he holds, at the option of […]
Effective: June 1, 1992 Latest Legislation: House Bill 343 – 119th General Assembly (A) If a nuisance is established in a criminal action, the prosecuting attorney, village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal officer shall proceed promptly under sections 3767.03 to 3767.11 of the Revised Code to enforce those sections. The […]
Effective: March 23, 2000 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 107 – 123rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “felonious conduct” means an offense that is a felony or a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult. (B) A house or building used or occupied as a habitual resort for […]
Effective: June 29, 1982 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 78 – 114th General Assembly (A) No person shall erect, continue, use, or maintain a building, structure, or place for the exercise of a trade, employment, or business, or for the keeping or feeding of an animal which, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person shall intentionally throw, deposit, or permit to be thrown or deposited, coal dirt, coal slack, coal screenings, or coal refuse from coal mines, refuse or filth from a coal oil refinery or gasworks, or whey or filthy drainage from a […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The fine and costs imposed in division (D) of section 3767.99 of the Revised Code shall be a lien on such oil well, oil tank, oil refinery, oil vat, or place of deposit and the contents thereof until paid, and such oil […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person shall put the carcass of a dead animal or the offal from a slaughterhouse, butcher’s establishment, packing house, or fish house, or spoiled meat, spoiled fish, or other putrid substance or the contents of a privy vault, upon or into […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person shall willfully obstruct a ditch, drain, or watercourse constructed by order of a board of county commissioners or by a board of township trustees, or divert the water therefrom.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person shall maliciously put a dead animal, carcass, or part thereof, or other putrid, nauseous, or offensive substance into, or befoul, a well, spring, brook, or branch of running water, or a reservoir of a water works, of which use is […]
Effective: October 6, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 571 – 120th General Assembly No person shall carry on the business of slaughtering, tallow chandlery, or the manufacturing of glue, soap, starch, or other article, the manufacture of which is productive of unwholesome or noxious odors in a building or place within one mile of a […]
Effective: September 28, 1973 Latest Legislation: House Bill 200 – 110th General Assembly No person, firm or corporation shall cut, injure, remove, or destroy any fence or other barrier designed and erected to prevent traffic from entering or leaving a limited access highway without the permission of the director of transportation, except in a case […]
